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Her Fault
"Her fault. when things go wrong.
women are the bottom of it.
guilty... carry it in your bones."
I have not been able to find a majority of the poetry collected in this piece online. Which is why
The poems in this collection deal with the inherited pride and traumas she received growing up as a Japanese American. Many of her poems tackle residual feelings from WWII as her family was forced into an internment camp in 1942, and the pieces also tackle the racism + sexism she experienced at UCLA and across her lifetime. There are also poems dedicated and written toward specific communities she worked with during her long life as an activist. Some of the poems are dated, having been written in political climates that are long forgotten for some. But reading each poem is invigorating. You can feel that Mirikitani cared deeply for the causes she wrote for and she imbued that care in each line of poetry.
As I've learned more about Janice Mirikitani during my research these past few months, I have grown to deeply admire her. Janice and Cecil were at the forefront of radical politics in the 1960's as their work at GLIDE grew to encompass multiple intersectional ideas. Reading her poetry gives a glimpse into her personal side and helped to round out my understanding and motivations in Janice's political beliefs.
I loved this poetry collection, and I highly recommend it to the revolutionary girlies in my life. Specifically the pieces "War of my Body", "Generations of Women" and "Her Fault" can be read with attention to the time period they were written and showcase Janice's feelings as a woman of color in America.
"Her fault. when things go wrong.
women are the bottom of it.
guilty... carry it in your bones."
I have not been able to find a majority of the poetry collected in this piece online. Which is why
The poems in this collection deal with the inherited pride and traumas she received growing up as a Japanese American. Many of her poems tackle residual feelings from WWII as her family was forced into an internment camp in 1942, and the pieces also tackle the racism + sexism she experienced at UCLA and across her lifetime. There are also poems dedicated and written toward specific communities she worked with during her long life as an activist. Some of the poems are dated, having been written in political climates that are long forgotten for some. But reading each poem is invigorating. You can feel that Mirikitani cared deeply for the causes she wrote for and she imbued that care in each line of poetry.
As I've learned more about Janice Mirikitani during my research these past few months, I have grown to deeply admire her. Janice and Cecil were at the forefront of radical politics in the 1960's as their work at GLIDE grew to encompass multiple intersectional ideas. Reading her poetry gives a glimpse into her personal side and helped to round out my understanding and motivations in Janice's political beliefs.
I loved this poetry collection, and I highly recommend it to the revolutionary girlies in my life. Specifically the pieces "War of my Body", "Generations of Women" and "Her Fault" can be read with attention to the time period they were written and showcase Janice's feelings as a woman of color in America.
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